porting Android without any sources from the manufacturer
The quality of the photos is… uh… so-so. The camera shoots at 5-10 FPS, but it’s possible that I didn’t transfer the filters. The bottom line is this: under the hood, Android apparently has some concept of “filters” for the camera – perhaps some firmware for the DSP or just modules for the built-in camera module that allows you to do things like software stabilization. But even from the factory, it doesn’t really shine here:
The synthetic benchmarks shown above are good, but if we have a huge elongated display, why not try playing something? And here the Mali-400 turns out to be noticeably more powerful than the budget Snapdragons of previous years. The toys are generally good. For example, Raging Thunder 2 from 2011 looks great here and plays nicely:
But after all, a mobile classic without a donation is not something that may interest a modern player in mobile games. Therefore, we move on to cooler toys, such as Dead Trigger:
And here the “jamb” of the device is revealed – the touchscreen starts to register the touch only if you move it a little on the display – otherwise there is no reaction! Because of this, we get unresponsive control (this is not an input lag, but a feature of the touchscreen) and it is almost impossible to play. But the game is going great.
And it also turns out that the touchscreen is only two touches! That’s it!
One of the best races on mobile phones – NFS Most Wanted, the device pulls smoothly with microfreezes in some moments.
And of course, the device performs well as a dialer. Here the Chinese hid as many as two slots for SIM and at the same time for MicroSD behind the SIM tray! And it will come in handy for you: 8GB of ROM is quite a bit today.
What else can be done with such a device? Well, as an option to bungle the server!
❯ Conclusion
Probably, my reader already wants to write in the comments, saying, “friend, why are you messing around with these fakes” – but no! The guide applies not only to MT6580 devices, but also to newer/older devices on a wide variety of chipsets. After all, half of the custom ROMs for brand new devices come from porting from one device to another. Custom “mileage” can be far from one device!
My readers on different platforms have asked me: how can I revive an MT81xx tablet, a Highscreen smartphone from 2013, or a relatively fresh Xiaomi Redmi. Well, it’s up to you to decide whether such a gadget is usable in 2023 or not! I’m waiting for your opinion in the comments.
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